My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSInterpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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He who would be free must strike the first blow.
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Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.
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Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
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The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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One and God make a majority.
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